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As usual, this is the opposite of my experience; optimizers are at their best in hard games, and in fact, are often bred by same. The...

I've softened my stance on optimization from in the past, where I thought it was a pox on the hobby. Optimizers are not only perfectly...

I mean, non-optimizers benefit massively more from both of those changes than optimizers lol. Optimzers will usually have PCs with...

Forget it, Jake, its Bloodtide.

Why would an optimizer need an easy buddy DM? By my definition (and I don't think I am off the wall here) an optimizer builds...

Learning your character so your lack of knowledge of what you have chosen to play doesn't cause slowdown at the table as we all have to...

You...you...monster!

First post with our new MacBook Air M4.... Zoom! Zoom!

Yeah. I'm kind of stunned that I seem to fall into the disruptive ego-driven jerk camp because I put my highest score in the class...

I'm going to stop here. Because at this point, you've agreed -- while you see a high overlap between optimizers and jerks, being an...

The same thing is true for roleplaying though. "Over-roleplaying" is what leads to party griefing because "that's what my character...

If you don't mind, and this is not a gotcha question: if the difference between optimizer and munchkin is pedantic where is your...

It's really not, except inasmuch that it's all "playing the game", and we're all on a continuum. Every one of us. Somewhere down at...

I personally am a optimizer and power player. Although I don't use exploits and interactions, that were clearly not RAI. But I like to...

In a word ... YES. TTRPGs are a social game, part of that is following Wheaton's Law. "Don't be a dick." And tbh, I dislike the blanket...